From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/47099 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mohamed Bana Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: installing fonts pdftex Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 20:47:09 +0000 Message-ID: References: <497E4731.5040902@cs.ucl.ac.uk> <4B419D05-BE4C-41F9-8B4E-5CAE1E5F079C@uni-bonn.de> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1233262244 8506 80.91.229.12 (29 Jan 2009 20:50:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 20:50:44 +0000 (UTC) To: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Jan 29 21:51:57 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LSdrX-0007IC-Pr for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 21:51:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4DCA1FC57; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 21:50:15 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 05630-04; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 21:48:57 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98D311FCE9; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 21:48:52 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FCA81FCDB for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 21:48:15 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 06999-02 for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 21:47:27 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from filter2-nij.mf.surf.net (filter2-nij.mf.surf.net [195.169.124.153]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABB9E1FCBB for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 21:47:24 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by filter2-nij.mf.surf.net (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id n0TKlNj9004269 for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 21:47:24 +0100 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LSdnF-0000D8-4s for ntg-context@ntg.nl; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 20:47:21 +0000 Original-Received: from 87-194-191-26.bethere.co.uk ([87.194.191.26]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 20:47:21 +0000 Original-Received: from mbana.lists by 87-194-191-26.bethere.co.uk with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 20:47:21 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 92 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 87-194-191-26.bethere.co.uk User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090105) In-Reply-To: <4B419D05-BE4C-41F9-8B4E-5CAE1E5F079C@uni-bonn.de> X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=80.91.229.2; country=NO; region=12; city=Oslo; latitude=59.9167; longitude=10.7500; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=59.9167,10.7500&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 172505068 - b53b23fa9fc2 X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 195.169.124.153 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:47099 Archived-At: this http://wiki.contextgarden.net/otfinst did it and it actually worked quite well, thanks a lot. it even took care of the dashes problem. do you know how to default to old style numerals the 'osf' doesn't seem to work, and i'm certain that the font supports it. and if you so happen to be the author, you've got a bug; if i chose Sans, it generates this typescript \definetypeface [sample][rm][serif][cronospro][default][encoding=texnansi] instead of \definetypeface [sample][ss][sans][cronospro][default][encoding=texnansi] Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: > > On Jan 27, 2009, at 12:28 AM, Mohamed Bana wrote: > >> Hi Thomas, >> > > Hi, > > please address questions to the mailing-list, not to me personally. > >> 1. when is the last time you tried to install a font manually using >> texfont? i've been trying to get install warnockpro and cronospro - >> both of which are .otf - but i've had no lack. >> >> texfont --makepath --install --fontroot=`pwd` --vendor=adobe >> --co=warnockpro --en=texnansi --lcdf --preproc >> --variant=liga,kern,smcp,onum >> >> the last time i checked texfont was generating an empty map file. > > texfont is really old, it predates opentype fonts, so you can't expect > it to handle such fonts. It was a brave and wonderful effort to automate > installation of fonts, but I gave up using it - not because texfont > itself is bad, but because so many fonts are just faulty and/or > idiosyncratic, and automatization just can't handle all these eceptions. > I always had to double-check and edit files by hand, so I decided to go > for a manual process. The --lcdf switch was added by Adam Lindsay, who > also wrote a short article about otf and ConTeXt: > http://www.tug.org/pracjourn/2005-2/lindsay/lindsay.pdf Too bad Adam > isn't active anymore, he was a great help in ConTeXt development. If you > search the mailing list archive for "texfont lcdf," you will see that > the problem with the empty map file is common and was never really > solved, AFAIK. > > So you have several options: > > 1. install the fonts manually > > 2. use texfont and write the map file manually > > 3. try Patrick's otfinst http://wiki.contextgarden.net/otfinst > > 4. I have a set of support files for using Cronos and Warnock with > pdftex; if you want, I can make a zip and send them to you (not before > Thursday, however). >> >> >> the free version of lucida (.ttf) that ship with Java files worked fine >> >> 2. is there someone i must do to get to dashes working properly? as >> in, --- doesn't generate the right dash nor does --. > > These are defined as ligatures in the tfm/vf files. Doesn't texfont > produce vpl-files as an intermediate format? You could open those and > check whether the ligature is defined. It probably isn't, and then you > have to hunt down the reason or add it manually... > > > Good luck > > Thomas > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > > If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry > to the Wiki! > > maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / > http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context > webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net > archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ > wiki : http://contextgarden.net > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > > ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________